Went for a one-and-a-half-ish mile run just now as a sort of lunch break. it was good. so far no ache.
yesterday i began the hunt / investigation/ phase three eradication of the ache, by going and getting some gait analysis.
it was good, too. interesting and perhaps pseudo-scientific (depending on who you talk to) but good anyway.
saucony did it at a local running store. as it turned out i've been running in saucony shoes (cheapest available when i had a sudden need for new shoes as part one of ache eradication) and supposedly they plus the support insert i've been wearing are doing a good job at: get this
correcting my pronation
because i pronate now.
i have always had neutral medium-arch feet, but now apparently i am a pronator. and that could have been what started the whole mess anyway.
revelation. huh?
though saucony suggests that its a foot thing and to fix it with more supportive shoes (though they had only good things to say about my current set up) ...and nothing about alignment.
and other evidence suggests without proper alignment who the hell cares what you are wearing on your feet.
so.
take it all with a grain of maybe-but-maybe-not. for what that is worth.
08 April 2011
06 April 2011
heat it up
I just joined the conversation on this post: http://tinyurl.com/3rt4t7v and it occurred to me that it isn't something I've mentioned: we're without heat right now @ the house.
At first I was embarrassed--I haven't told any of my co-workers and didn't tell my mom until she offered to come help paint, and then I had to tell her to wear her long underwear because you need it in here...but its really not so bad, and the closer we get to spring the better it gets.
When we bought the house it was going through close to ten gallons of oil a day . And the internal temp was set at 60. We thought it was mostly heating hot water, so we disconnected the hot water tank and JLB brought an electric one home from work ...and it was still burning it up, so we shut it down completely with about 30 gallons left in the tank for emergencies. That was in early March.
It stayed cold for awhile, and we turned it on for several nights and then back off once we got up, to keep the pipes from freezing (we also left the tap in the kitchen just-so-slightly-on, just in case). We wore long underwear pretty much continuously and luckily both have those super-puffy down slippers (that we usually only use winter camping)...I suppose it helps that we both like winter camping and hiking too--cold is no fun, but its really not bad once you get moving. Once you get moving you get warm, no problem. If I want to sit still (to read a book, say, or type a bit on the computer) I grab a blanket, otherwise there are a bunch of putter-ing type projects that will keep me moving and busy and warm and need to be done anyway. Although I have been staying away from peeling wallpaper until it gets warmer out: I did that a couple of weekends ago and got soaked--and even though I used warm water to start, I did get really cold and since I was wet I had a very hard time warming up again. But sweeping and sanding and unpacking boxes are all excellent warm-up tasks. And moving bricks is the best--no way to be warmer, short of lugging firewood, for sure!
But really, I can't wait for spring!!
At first I was embarrassed--I haven't told any of my co-workers and didn't tell my mom until she offered to come help paint, and then I had to tell her to wear her long underwear because you need it in here...but its really not so bad, and the closer we get to spring the better it gets.
When we bought the house it was going through close to ten gallons of oil a day . And the internal temp was set at 60. We thought it was mostly heating hot water, so we disconnected the hot water tank and JLB brought an electric one home from work ...and it was still burning it up, so we shut it down completely with about 30 gallons left in the tank for emergencies. That was in early March.
It stayed cold for awhile, and we turned it on for several nights and then back off once we got up, to keep the pipes from freezing (we also left the tap in the kitchen just-so-slightly-on, just in case). We wore long underwear pretty much continuously and luckily both have those super-puffy down slippers (that we usually only use winter camping)...I suppose it helps that we both like winter camping and hiking too--cold is no fun, but its really not bad once you get moving. Once you get moving you get warm, no problem. If I want to sit still (to read a book, say, or type a bit on the computer) I grab a blanket, otherwise there are a bunch of putter-ing type projects that will keep me moving and busy and warm and need to be done anyway. Although I have been staying away from peeling wallpaper until it gets warmer out: I did that a couple of weekends ago and got soaked--and even though I used warm water to start, I did get really cold and since I was wet I had a very hard time warming up again. But sweeping and sanding and unpacking boxes are all excellent warm-up tasks. And moving bricks is the best--no way to be warmer, short of lugging firewood, for sure!
But really, I can't wait for spring!!
21 March 2011
Tulip two step
wore my brooks (old old running shoes) yesterday for the first time in awhile: may have shooting pain in my calf at the moment...or maybe I am imagining it?
Anyway back to the Asics for now, and waiting a day or so before I try to run again.
Did a bit of yard work yesterday since enough of the snow has melted to see most of the yard: the people we bought this house from made some weird choices. Inside it is things like sponge-painting trim and wallpapering the front of the bathtub, outside things like decorative stones all over the flower bed that gets the most light: the one I want to put my veggies in. Seriously, lots of polished rocks--the kind you might find in an aquarium. And ivy everywhere. Not growing up the house, but somehow along the edge of the porch and invasively into the front bed. Probably about half the time I spent cleaning up was just ripping up ivy. We tossed most of the small statuary as it started to poke through the snow. Hopefully they don't come by wanting it back, their little tennis playing angel and ugly looking cat-thing are down in the depths of the dumpster at this point and I have no interest in diving in there.
Anyway back to the Asics for now, and waiting a day or so before I try to run again.
Did a bit of yard work yesterday since enough of the snow has melted to see most of the yard: the people we bought this house from made some weird choices. Inside it is things like sponge-painting trim and wallpapering the front of the bathtub, outside things like decorative stones all over the flower bed that gets the most light: the one I want to put my veggies in. Seriously, lots of polished rocks--the kind you might find in an aquarium. And ivy everywhere. Not growing up the house, but somehow along the edge of the porch and invasively into the front bed. Probably about half the time I spent cleaning up was just ripping up ivy. We tossed most of the small statuary as it started to poke through the snow. Hopefully they don't come by wanting it back, their little tennis playing angel and ugly looking cat-thing are down in the depths of the dumpster at this point and I have no interest in diving in there.
15 March 2011
croakies
We bought the house: crazy pants. We've been living there for two weeks and it is still a little surreal --decide at 10pm that you're going to see what the chimney in the living room wall looks like: get a crow bar and take it down, right then and there...
The chimney looks great, by the way; but the lath and plaster all over the living room floor still needs to get cleaned up.
Took the Newf running this morning.
Have I mentioned the Newf here? Before the house-buying, we went and got ourselves a Newfoundland puppy. She is 6 months old and not a natural runner.
We have that in common I think.
But she's pretty good, and comes when called upwards of 50% of the time, so that is always a pleasant surprise.
We did maybe just over a mile, down to the beach and around and then about half way back and she got tired and didn't want to run any more. Calf a little achy but not terrible, really about normal all things considered.
But yeah: House. Its a duplex. So we're operating under the hypothesis that it will lower our living costs significantly. Once we finish it. Because, yeah--the reason we could afford it at all is that half of it was gutted when we bought it. So I do a fair amount of house-related exercise: lift those bricks! Paint that wall! Or knock it down! Throw it all in the dumpster!
I can't wait for the day the renovation on the back half is done--we're living in the front half, and there are a lot of things we would like to do with it, but they're all waiting until the back half is done.
The chimney looks great, by the way; but the lath and plaster all over the living room floor still needs to get cleaned up.
Took the Newf running this morning.
Have I mentioned the Newf here? Before the house-buying, we went and got ourselves a Newfoundland puppy. She is 6 months old and not a natural runner.
We have that in common I think.
But she's pretty good, and comes when called upwards of 50% of the time, so that is always a pleasant surprise.
We did maybe just over a mile, down to the beach and around and then about half way back and she got tired and didn't want to run any more. Calf a little achy but not terrible, really about normal all things considered.
But yeah: House. Its a duplex. So we're operating under the hypothesis that it will lower our living costs significantly. Once we finish it. Because, yeah--the reason we could afford it at all is that half of it was gutted when we bought it. So I do a fair amount of house-related exercise: lift those bricks! Paint that wall! Or knock it down! Throw it all in the dumpster!
I can't wait for the day the renovation on the back half is done--we're living in the front half, and there are a lot of things we would like to do with it, but they're all waiting until the back half is done.
11 January 2011
standard conditions
Happy New Year! and Happy 1-11-11. Don't you just love it when the date does amusing things like that?
I ran 2 miles on New Year's day, late in the afternoon to give my head time to clear. We stayed up too late on NYE and tried way too many kinds of Prosecco.
It seemed like a good way to start 2011, but all in all I am still not really running: I spent November sick--head cold to sinus infection to massive influx of antibiotics, and December treading very carefully in hopes of not relapsing into sickness while everyone around me got sick.
Somewhere in mid-December it occurred to me that my leg hadn't hurt in a good week. So I experimented with some elliptical and water running, and new year's day I hit the pavement.
And got achy all over again.
I have made the trip to the local running store and procured a pair of arch-supporting inserts. I've been wearing them for the last 3 or 4 days and am planning on a week of wear before I try a run in them...so far they seem to be helpful?
I am inches away from another doctors visit to try and (MRI, bone scan, other expensive medical words) figure out what the hell is wrong with my leg. I feel like I've given it everything its ever asked for and it is just being a bitchy prima donna about life right now.
Also: I could really use a run. We are *still* trying to buy the same house--its like a hobby at this point, trying to buy this particular piece of property..we're on our 2nd bank and 3rd loan-officer-person, but things are actually starting to look promising...fingers, toes and everything else you can think of, crossed. So stress levels are kind of high. And pockets are kind of empty. On the one hand I am kicking myself for my little jaunt to Greece and England this fall, and on the other, it is likely the last trip I will get to take for the foreseeable future, so its nice I got to go see friends and visit new places while I still had the chance.
I ran 2 miles on New Year's day, late in the afternoon to give my head time to clear. We stayed up too late on NYE and tried way too many kinds of Prosecco.
It seemed like a good way to start 2011, but all in all I am still not really running: I spent November sick--head cold to sinus infection to massive influx of antibiotics, and December treading very carefully in hopes of not relapsing into sickness while everyone around me got sick.
Somewhere in mid-December it occurred to me that my leg hadn't hurt in a good week. So I experimented with some elliptical and water running, and new year's day I hit the pavement.
And got achy all over again.
I have made the trip to the local running store and procured a pair of arch-supporting inserts. I've been wearing them for the last 3 or 4 days and am planning on a week of wear before I try a run in them...so far they seem to be helpful?
I am inches away from another doctors visit to try and (MRI, bone scan, other expensive medical words) figure out what the hell is wrong with my leg. I feel like I've given it everything its ever asked for and it is just being a bitchy prima donna about life right now.
Also: I could really use a run. We are *still* trying to buy the same house--its like a hobby at this point, trying to buy this particular piece of property..we're on our 2nd bank and 3rd loan-officer-person, but things are actually starting to look promising...fingers, toes and everything else you can think of, crossed. So stress levels are kind of high. And pockets are kind of empty. On the one hand I am kicking myself for my little jaunt to Greece and England this fall, and on the other, it is likely the last trip I will get to take for the foreseeable future, so its nice I got to go see friends and visit new places while I still had the chance.
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